International Freight Shipping

News relating to the import and export business, including customs, current economics and more. The container line landscape is constantly evolving as market dynamics present new challenges to the industry. See how the companies involved have changed as a result of mergers and acquisitions since 1977.

Commentary

The transloading trend is placing severe pressure on the largest container gateway in the Americas, where the adjacent Los Angeles and Long Beach ports handled a combined 14.4 million 20-foot-equivalent units last year.

Maersk Line will announce its third-quarter results on Nov. 2, the first set of financials by the world’s largest container line since CEO Soren Skou outlined a strategic review of the group in September.

Deepwater Wind’s $300 million, 30 MW project three miles off Block Island, Rhode Island, is small compared with big onshore and offshore projects at other locations, but it’s seen as a breakthrough for the US market.